The Well

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Ringwood
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: Reprint

Description: 176 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: It had been a harsh, lonely life for spinster Hester Harper on the isolated farm in Western Australia, with only her elderly, ailing father for companionship. Then, 'partly out of pity and partly out of fancy' she brought the young orphan girl to stay with them. Katherine was eager to work and to learn; and Hester's emotionally impoverished life began to flower as the two It had been a harsh, lonely life for spinster Hester Harper on the isolated farm in Western Australia, with only her elderly, ailing father for companionship. Then, 'partly out of pity and partly out of fancy' she brought the young orphan girl to stay with them. Katherine was eager to work and to learn; and Hester's emotionally impoverished life began to flower as the two cooked and sewed and ran the farm and made music for each other's entertainment.It was all so beautiful - until the night they ran into a mysterious creature (or was it a human being?) on a rutted country road on the way home from a dance. Even after Hester deposited the evidence in the farm's deep well, the injured voice at the bottom would not be stilled. Most disturbing of all, Katherine is drawn to the edge of the recess, the further away she gets from Hester.A haunting, deeply resonant tale of obsessive attachment and sexual awakening, The Well demonstrates once again that Elizabeth Jolley is a writer of wit, high moral purpose and great conviction. (from the first edition dustjacket) ...more

ISBN: 9780140104653